Leonia (Boundary) Cemetery

    Directions:  Take Hwy 2 west out of Troy to the top of the hill and turn left onto "Southside Road" (#4402) and always stay/bear to the right ( make sure you pack a lunch and have a tank full of gas) the turn off to the cemetery is Approx 16 miles. At 1 1/2 miles road forks, stay right.... at 2.9 cross bridge at Ruby Creek, 7.5 miles another small bridge, and at 11 miles see Idaho Border marker on the right side, in 4-5 miles you will see the turn off on the right,  then continue for 2 miles and you will see Boulder City on the left,  then continue for two more miles (you can see the old "Leonia Bridge" across the river), if you watch  and the road forks you are there, look  to your left and a little to the east in the tree's and you will see a rail fence please leave it in a clean state,  and please, do not remove anything. If anyone goes out, call me and I'll make a new marker for the Morris girl.  

John Feldenzer:  406-293-6928

GPS:  N48.61920,  W116.05747   

 

cemetery site

Cemetery site

Bettie R. Oaks

Oscar R. Breimon

Information below, was taken from the Kootenai Herald and or the Bonners Ferry Herald.

Name

Birth Date

Death Date

Buried Date

remarks

Note page

John M. Gorman

 

8-23-1898

    

2

Jack Conway

 

9-8-1901

  

drowned near Leonia

 

O.J.Jones

  

3-22-1906

  

died in a train wreck near Leonia

  

James Melroy

1880

3-30-1906

      

Frank Blakely

  

6-(?)-1912

  

shot to death in Leonia

  

Tannas Mahall

1884

8-8-1913

      

Oscar R. Breimon

1884

10-16-1918

      

Mathilda R. Fatland

1898

10-23-1918

      

John H. Taylor

10-13-1851

7-30-1921

      

George Henry Taylor

 

8-(?)-1921

      

Jacob Lang

1843

8-(?)-1922

      

Bettie R. Oaks

5-17-1922

8-12-1922

      

unknown

        

3

3 unknown men

  

1897

    

4

 

LEONIA and LEONIA SIDING  (Kootenai River - State Line) 
A Great Northern railroad siding located at the mouth of Boulder Creek in Idaho in 1892.    A small settlement developed at the siding in 1894.  The size of the settlement grew when it became a rail head for supplies and food for the mining town of Sylvanite, Montana.  Flooding of Boulder Creek in 1897 destroyed the settlement and the Great Northern moved the siding to its present location on the   Montana-Idaho state line.  Rumors say that the old settlement was nothing more than a memory by the late 1940. Reportedly named for a camp follower in 1892.

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